{"product_id":"essays-and-poems-and-simplicity-a-comedy","title":"Essays and Poems and `Simplicity', A Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite being an aristocrat and a woman, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) made herself a writer.  Lady Mary has long been well-known as a `character' a letter writer, and a traveller, this revised paperback edition of her non-epistolary writings appears at a time when interest in her literary work is now widespread and serious.   Lady Mary saw herself as `haunted by the Daemon of Poesie'.  She wrote literary criticism of Addison and the\n\u003cbr\u003eonly essay by a woman published in the Spectator, together with spirited verse replies to Pope and Swift and passionate love-poems which dispute the period's label `Age of Reason'.  Her essays (some\n\u003cbr\u003epublished anonymously in newspapers) and poems (many of which appeared with her secret connivance) deal with issues still alive and accessible today: love, marriage, prejudice against women writers, the medical breakthrough of smallpox innoculation.  Her comedy, Simplicity, has been recently revived in productions around the U.K.   Hard-hitting, eloquent and often funny, the work of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu will be essential reading for the growing number of scholars,\n\u003cbr\u003estudents and general readers of women's writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059274535150,"sku":"9780198122883","price":115.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198122883.jpg?v=1736495197","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/essays-and-poems-and-simplicity-a-comedy","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}